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Agelbert NOTE: Here the biological logic of closing the high seas to fishing (Dr. Lubchenco calls it the Wet West - referring to the "Wild West" term because anything goes and there is ZERO respect for sustainability) is mentioned, although also pointed out by Dr. Lubchenco is the fact that major governmetns refuse to do so.

As Economist P. Dasgupta laments, collective action to stop, or even ameliorate, this crisis consistently fails to be achieved, even though we are basically out of time for additional delays.

On our 4.54 billion year old planet, life is perhaps as much as 3.7 billion years old, photosynthesis and multi-cellularity dozens of times independently around 3.0 billion years old, and the emergence of plants, animals, and fungi onto land, by at least the Ordovician period, perhaps 480 million years ago, forests appearing around 370 million years ago, and the origin of modern groups such as mammals, birds, reptiles, and land plants subsequently. The geological record shows that there have been five major extinction-events in the past, the first of them about 542 million years ago, and suggests that 99% of the species that ever lived (5 billion of them?) have become extinct. The last major extinction event occurred about 66 million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, and, in general, the number of species on earth and the complexity of their communities has increased steadily until near the present.

Agelbert additional NOTE: The global warming crisis is itself a symptom of the world view that gave us people like Trump. Unless he starts a nuclear war, he won't kill most of us; but Catastrophic climate change certainly will.

The source of the current and worsening crisis is lack of ethics among government and business elites.

Even though we ARE bordering on collapse, it is due to a concentration of ill gotten profits in a tiny group of rapacious oligarchs, not because the money is not there.

The Wall Street Capitalist "logic" has been debunked over and over. Privatization ALWAYS increases costs to society, not the other way around, as Wall Streeters fervently, and erroneously, believe.

The reason for that has been clearly laid out by eminent economists who do all the math, not just the convenient parts that 'justify' perpetual growth, on the costs human business activity on the biosphere we all require to live.

The "logic" of the business community is that IF a COST is not placed on exploiting the resources of the biosphere in an unsustainable (i.e. POLLUTION PRODUCING) manner, a de facto INCENTIVE exists, according to economic theory, to engage in rapacious biosphere damaging business practices. This, OF COURSE, assumes, as Capitalism's flawed economics education also seems to assume, that ethics play NO ROLE WHATSOEVER in business strategy and decisions to engage in whatever.

This is not only patently false, it is eventually suicidal in a finite resource environment (i.e. our biosphere).ETHICS has been eschewed by Capitalists to the detriment of, not just the rest of us, but the biosphere as well. This incredibly short sighted attempt to claim monetary PROFIT obtained regardless of Social Costs INCURRED, BUT NOT PAID, is the be-all-end all of economics is sophistry at its worst. It is willful and deliberate cherry picking of what costs apply and what costs are "external". IOW, it's IRRATIONAL thinking passed off as "fiduciary responsibility to corporate profits".

This eminent economist (P. Dasgupta) exposes the ethical bankruptcy of this "incentive to be unethical" (Economic Theory of Income Accounting instead of the more comprehensive, BUT NOT USED, Wealth Accounting) in the following video (go to T7:29):

P. Dasgupta is answering a question asked of him at the time point I just gave you. He discusses flow accounts versus stocks and the historical reasons for it. He discusses the problems with measuring GDP.

The question is simple and stark, but there will be a gradient of effects, and side-effects, and after-effects. As the oil economy collapses, the world will change. And it will change a great deal.

Let’s start with some of the basics.

Oil company values — which are currently topping the charts — will collapse. That means that certain investors (many investors) will “lose money,” or see their net worth drop. To put this into a little more perspective, we highlighted recently that Tesla [TSLA] has passed the US “Big 3” automakers in market cap, currently sitting at $60.15 billion (compared to GM at $51.73 billion and Ford at $44.76 billion). Meanwhile, Exxon’s market cap sits at $354.59 billion, Chevron’s market cap is $204.76 billion, and Saudi Aramco’s expected to be valued at $1–10 trillion.

Venezuela today; the USA tomorrow?

Some of our top commenters have made it clear — the oil bubble could collapse at any moment.

Full article with GREAT comments guaranteed to give fossil fuelers Excedrin Headache number 666. :

Agelbert Commentt reply to a fellow that said Big Oil was being forced to transition Renewable Energy: Big Oil has done the "invest in green tech" head fake before, even while they kept funding denier stink tanks and astro-turf pseudo-science propagandists yammering about the sun "getting weaker" and the "greening of the earth" from all that extra CO2 our loyal servants from the fossil fuel industry are providing at "no charge".

"Beyond Petroleum" for BP? Transition by Shell? Nope!

As you said, big Oil will transition eventually to Green Clean Tech, but ONLY when they have no other option under the law. Until then they will continue to drag their feet and defend polluting profit over people and planet with tooth and corruption claw.

This essay clearly lays out the fact that the Fossil Fuel Industry faces huge liability issues in the immediate future simply because there is ample evidence that they have deliberately sabotaged government efforts to transition to Renewable Energy for several decades. Their criminal behavior is not just Criminal Negligence", but actually mens rea criminal involving premeditated harm to the public welfare. That is why the fossil fuel giants like Exxon have always done everything they could to make the courts their handmaidens (SEE: the remedy for the Exxon Valdez damage reduced to ONE TENTH of the initial amount by the Supine Supreme Court).

Why is Big Oil and Gas so apparently suicidal and stubborn, when they have the capital in their coffers to totally transition to Renewable Energy? SEE BELOW:

As Zach pointed out, Big Oil is part of the global economy. When Big Oil goes down ,and they will, the economy takes a massive hit. That "hit" will depend on how far along any particular segment of the global economy has gone towards a 100% transition to Renewable Energy. New Zealand is getting there. Denmark, Iceland, Scotland, Finland and Portugal, as well as Germany are doing great as well. But the USA, Russia and ALL the other petro-states except maybe Qatar (Qatar is moving in the right Renewable Energy direction - hence fossil fuel tool Trump's attempt to demonize them) will be the most negatively impacted by the collapse of the oil based global economy.

But there is another aspect of risk that human civilization is increasing by delaying the total transition, not just away from fossil fuels, but to an ACTIVE biosphere remediation program to return to 350 PPM of CO2.

This risk is about the coming gigantic ocean storm and wave activity. This is not hyperbole. Two peer reviewed scientific studies published over the last two years predict ocean wave activity beyond the ability of present ship design.

I wrote a rather long (practically a mini-e-book) a while ago in three parts. The bottom line on the risk to our civilization in general and global shipping in particular is laid out in the third part.

People need to know what we are facing. People need to know the fossil fuel industry knows the score and does not care. They are the bad guy here.

Global Civilization is threatened within 25 years or less by the scientifically predicted ocean surface wave activity in the Hansen et al June 2015 study * and the Dutton et al July 2015 study ** evidencing a 6 to 25 meter (19 to 82 feet!) sea level increase in the geological record when the CO2 parts per million (PPM) atmospheric concentration was between 300 and 400PPM. As of October of 2015, the CO2 concentration is at 400PPM. It is increasing at over 3PPM per year.

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom discusses the human rights movement and its connection to the economy with activist and author Peter Joseph. As runaway global warming continues to accelerate and the gap between rich and poor - there is a sense among many that our civilization is in crisis. What’s causing this crisis? And how do we move beyond the broken status quo and literally design a better future? Those big questions are at the heart of social critic and activist Peter Joseph's new book, "the New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression."

Then, Thom talks to Phillip Stucky of the Daily Caller and Alex Lawson of Social Security Works about GOP senators opposing the Senate’s version of a healthcare bill and Donald Trump doing a big favor for the Big Pharma industry.

DoctorWhom,UB (otherwise known as Uncle Bob) is a Libertarian, more or less. IOW, he believes all those social programs are baloney. I totally disagree with him on that score, and have given him "Da Bidness" on it several times in the past. At any rate, I suspect he was rather pleased to see someone win (Trump) who wants to drown government in a bathtub while the 1% cheer. That is, to UB, a "good" thing because it will make all the "lazy bums" out there have to "work for a living".

That is precisely the mindset that gave UB, who lives in Australia, a DEAD GIANT CORAL REEF called the Great Barrier Reef.

UB, you are a smart man, but your ideology lacks empathy. Yes, I know you have your own rather convenient view of how much "empathy" humans need to have to be "emotionally healthy". Good luck with that self centered attitude, Doctor, while the biosphere goes to hell in a profit over people and planet Libertarian, greed based, HAND BASKET.

I am all for smaller less intrusive govt. What Social programs i think we can do without need to be specific. I believe in free healthcare , free education including trade and tertiary with conditions like real competence , and social security , again with certain conditions . I dont believe someone incapacitated or has been in jail the last 5 yrs should be expected to find work and have no other income . I don't agree with paying someone effectively 100$ a week for every additional child they have. I've seen single mothers with 6 children on incomes of 1100-1200$ a week. Of course they do have a boyfriend, but he is never admitted living together. Incentivizing this instead of a little hand me down usually does none of those 6 children any favours.

I considered Trump winning last november a hail mary pass there was a chance he meant what he was saying about less military intervention around the world and reversing the slide toward world war 3. I expected at least half to be disappointed. I enjoyed his humiliation of the msm, and both clintons, especially bringing r a p e victims to debates, but never really trusted him. Its clear now, it was all an act and not one word he uttered was earnest.

You are a doctor of the mind and you knew darned good and well the carnival barker, con artist, narcissistic, empathy deficit disordered manipulator that Trump was, and is, from the start. I do not have your insight, your credentials or your experience, yet I knew what he was up to from the start. While I celebrate the fact that you have come around to seeing Trump as he really is, I insist that the only reason you didn't see him that way earlier is that you were blinded by "free market" ideology. I find it hard to believe that you were swayed by Trump's anti-Clinton talk. A con artist will use the truth to disparage a competitor if he can, which is what Trump did. But you should have known that Trump could care less about even the most heinous acts perpetrated by the Clintons. Of course Clinton was a non-choice. But that did not make Trump the choice.

The Green Party Candidate was, once Sanders was railroaded, the only ethical choice. You did not support her because of your ideology, UB.

I could have a very long conversation with you involving first causes as to why your belief that people on welfare have a pecuniary incentive to have children is based on ideology, not cause and effect in society and government. But I wont simply because you assume that it is blatantly obvious that people are all about taking a free ride when they are given an opportunity. That is part of your ideology. I agree many are like that. But they did not get that way because they were born that way. But like I said, this is like a well (deep subject ).

At any rate, I'm glad you and yours are still healthy. May you continue to do well.

Big Picture Interview: Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work. As Republicans push for this murderous healthcare, Americans are literally dying, increasingly as a result of opioid overdoses. Does this omnipresence of death in American society tell us something about capitalism?

PARIS, July 3 (Reuters) – French container shipping firm CMA CGM said on Monday it had agreed to sell a 90 percent Stake in Port of Los Angeles Container Terminal.

CMA CGM will retain a 10 percent interest in the Global Gateway South terminal after the deal with funds EQT Infrastructure and its partner P5 Infrastructure, the company said in a statement.

The terminal came under CMA CGM’s ownership through its 2015 takeover of Singapore’s Neptune Orient Lines (NOL), a $2.4 billion deal that marked the Marseille-based group’s biggest-ever acquisition.

CMA CGM said the sale would help it pay down debts following the NOL takeover and that it was part of its strategy of focusing on shipping. At the time of the NOL takeover, CMA CGM said it aimed to make divestments of $1 billion after reviewing assets.

The acquisition of NOL, which operated under the commercial name APL, handed CMA CGM market leadership in trans-Pacific routes, with a strong presence on the U.S. west coast.

The NOL acquisition was part of a wider consolidation in the container shipping industry in the midst of a deep downturn in the past few years due to overcapacity and faltering global economic growth.

CMA CGM has posted a profit since the end of last year, supported by a recovery in NOL’s operating results.

BNP Paribas and HSBC acted as financial advisors on the deal, CMA CGM said. (Reporting by Gus Trompiz; writing by Leigh Thomas, editing by David Evans)

EQT Infrastructure to acquire majority interest in Global Gateway South terminal in Port of Los Angeles

MON, JUL 03, 2017 01:00 EST

EQT Infrastructure to acquire a majority interest in Global Gateway South, a leading container terminal in the Port of Los Angeles operating under a long-term concession.

EQT Infrastructure will partner with P5 Infrastructure to transform Global Gateway South into a global leader in trade infrastructure.

Seller CMA CGM, the world’s third largest shipping line and the largest on the Asia-US trade route, will retain 10% ownership and sign a long-term utilization agreement with the terminal.

The EQT Infrastructure III fund (“EQT Infrastructure” or “the fund”) has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 90% of Global Gateway South (“GGS” or “the company”), a leading terminal in the North American Port of Los Angeles, with an enterprise value of USD 875 million. EQT Infrastructure has partnered with port operating firm P5 Infrastructure (“P5”) to develop a value creation plan aimed at transforming GGS into a world class operation. Current owner, CMA CGM, will retain a 10% ownership stake in GGS and has entered into a long-term contract as the largest customer of the terminal.

The Port of Los Angeles, together with the Port of Long Beach, form the largest and most important gateway in North America for growing transpacific trade flows. GGS is the third largest terminal in the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in terms of capacity, and operates under a long-term concession that runs through 2043. The terminal provides intermodal container handling services to shipping lines including stevedoring, intermodal/truck services, storage and maintenance, and is on track to handle over one million containers in 2017. GGS benefits from a superior waterfront location and berth depth that enables the terminal to accommodate the latest and future generations of large container ships. These characteristics, together with an ideal layout and superior rail connectivity, position GGS to become one of the most relevant and efficient terminals in North America.

EQT Infrastructure and P5 have developed a plan to transform GGS from an asset operated as a cost center, into a leading North American terminal in terms of capacity and efficiency. The strategy includes significant capital investments in cranes, other handling equipment and technology to increase capacity and efficiency. The growth of the company will be supported by an industrial Board of Directors with significant ports and container shipping expertise.

Lennart Blecher, Head of Real Assets and Deputy Managing Partner at EQT, Investment Advisor to the fund, said: “The acquisition of GGS fits perfectly with EQT Infrastructure’s focused sector approach of targeting high-quality, well-located logistics assets with transformation potential. The combination of P5’s and EQT’s vast industrial expertise will be a great foundation for sustainable value-creation for the terminal. We are also very happy with CMA CGM’s continued support and engagement”.

Farid Salem, Executive Officer of CMA CGM, said: “We are very pleased to partner with EQT Infrastructure. Together we will develop GGS into a world class terminal company. The terminal will remain an important part of our industry leading logistics network, and will have an opportunity to grow alongside CMA CGM. Throughout the sales process, EQT Infrastructure and P5 have focused on growth in addition to a responsible, hands-on ownership approach, which we consider highly beneficial to our future partnership”.

About EQT EQT is a leading alternative investments firm with approximately EUR 37 billion in raised capital across 24 funds. EQT funds have portfolio companies in Europe, Asia and the US with total sales of more than EUR 19 billion and approximately 110,000 employees. EQT works with portfolio companies to achieve sustainable growth, operational excellence and market leadership.

About CMA CGM CMA CGM, founded by Jacques R. Saadé, is a leading worldwide shipping group. Its 445 vessels call more than 370 ports in the world on all 5 continents. In 2016 they carried 15.6 million TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units). Now headed by Rodolphe Saadé, CMA CGM enjoys a continuous growth and keeps innovating to offer its customers new maritime, terrestrial, and logistical solutions. With a presence in 160 countries and through its 600 agencies network, the Group employs 29,000 people worldwide, including 2,400 in its headquarters in Marseilles.

On tonight’s Big Picture, Thom talks with Richard Wolff about the Fed’s plan to begin unwinding a stimulus within months. Then he talks with Bryan Pruitt and Doug Christian about a recent poll where a Majority Of GOP’ers say colleges are bad for America, that somehow we can afford military jets but not universal healthcare, and a planned day of action for net-neutrality.

Forget for one moment everything you've been told about September 11, 2001. 9/11 was a crime. And as with any crime, there is one overriding imperative that detectives must follow to identify the perpetrators: follow the money. This is an investigation of the 9/11 money trail.

JULY 14, 2017

CIA Agent Confesses On Deathbed: ‘We Blew Up WTC7 On 9/11’

By Baxter Dmitry

July 14, 2017 “Information Clearing House” – 79-year-old retired CIA agent, Malcom Howard, has made a series of astonishing claims since being released from hospital in New Jersey on Friday and told he has weeks to live. Mr. Howard claims he was involved in the “controlled demolition” of World Trade Center 7, the third building that was destroyed on 9/11.

Mr. Howard, who worked for the CIA for 36 years as an operative, claims he was tapped by senior CIA agents to work on the project due to his engineering background, and early career in the demolition business.

Trained as a civil engineer, Mr. Howard became an explosives expert after being headhunted by the CIA in early 1980s. Mr. Howard says has extensive experience in planting explosives in items as small as cigarette lighters and as large as “80 floor buildings.”

The 79-year-old New Jersey native says he worked on the CIA operation they dubbed “New Century” between May 1997 and September 2001, during a time he says the CIA “was still taking orders from the top.” Mr. Howard says he was part of a cell of 4 operatives tasked with ensuring the demolition was successful.

Mr. Howard says the World Trade Center 7 operation is unique among his demolitions, as it is the only demolition that “we had to pretend wasn’t a demolition job”. He claims he had no problem going through with the deception at the time, because “when you are a patriot, you don’t question the motivation of the CIA or the White House. You assume the bigger purpose is for a greater good. They pick good, loyal people like me, and it breaks my heart to hear the **** talk.”

But even he admits that now, looking back, “Something wasn’t right.”

“No good has come from this. This isn’t the America we envisioned.”

Explaining how the building was bought down, Mr. Howard says, “It was a classic controlled demolition with explosives. We used super-fine military grade nanothermite composite materials as explosives. The hard part was getting thousands of pounds of explosives, fuses and ignition mechanisms into the building without causing too much concern. But almost every single office in the Building 7was rented by the CIA, the Secret Service, or the military, which made it easier.”

Mr. Howard explains that WTC 7 was “loaded with explosives in strategic places” in the month leading up to the day that changed the course of American history. On September 11th, while the North and South towers burned, fuses were ignited in World Trade Center 7, and nanothermite explosions hollowed out the building, destroying the steel structure, removing the reinforcements, and allowing the office fires to tear through the rest of the building, hollowing it out like a shell.

World Trade Center 7 collapsed into its own footprint at 5:20pm, seven hours after the destruction of WTC 1 and 2. The building shocked witnesses by coming down at the speed of freefall, indicating that it encountered zero resistance on the way down.

Mr. Howard and his colleagues had done their job.

“When the building came down, it was such a rush. Everything went exactly to plan. It was so smooth. Everybody was evacuated. Nobody was hurt in WTC 7. We were celebrating. We kept watching replays of the demolition, we had the whiskey and cigars out, and then all of a sudden the strangest thing happened. We all started to worry that it looked a bit too smooth. We watched the tape again and again and again and we started to get paranoid. It looked like a controlled demolition. We thought ****, people are going to question this. And then we heard that people from the street were reporting that they heard the explosions during the afternoon. When we were told that the BBC botched their report and announced to the world that the building collapsed 20 minutes before it actually did… At that point we really thought the gig was up.”

According to the official 9/11 report issued by the government, WTC 7 collapsed due to “uncontrolled fires” that were caused by debris that floated over from WTC 1 and 2, which had been hit by passenger planes. If the official narrative was true, WTC 7 would be the first tall building in the world to ever collapse due to uncontrolled fires, and the only steel skyscraper in the world to have collapsed into itself, due to “office fires.”

Mr. Howard and his colleagues feared the public would see through the official narrative and rise up against the government, demanding to be told the truth.

“There were so many loose ends, so much evidence left behind. We thought the public would be all over it. We thought there would be a public uprising that the media couldn’t ignore. They’d be funding investigations and demanding to know why they were being lied to. We thought they’d find chemical composites in the area that would prove Building 7 was blown up.

“We thought there would be a revolution. It would go all the way to the top, to President Bush. He’d be dragged out of the White House.

“But none of that happened. Almost nobody questioned anything. The media shot down anyone who dared question anything they were told.”

Follow the money

Mr. Howard claims he has “no direct knowledge” about the destruction of North and South Towers of the World Trade Center, explaining that “CIA operations are very specific” and that it is common to be working on a larger project while only understanding a small piece of the puzzle.

[9/11: Larry Silverstein Designed New WTC-7 One Year Before Attacks]

But he has advice for investigators seeking to understand the entire puzzle and work out who was behind the most devastating attack on American soil in history.

“Follow the money.”

“When you want to find out who is behind something, just follow the money. Look at the trades made just before 9/11. These are the guys that knew what was coming. The sons of CIA agents, government officials. Close relatives of the most powerful men in America. Cheney, Rumsfeld. They all got rich. It wasn’t just the contracts awarded to their friends in the construction business and the wars and the kickbacks.”

“It was insider trading.”

Many countries including Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Monaco launched insider trading investigations in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, believing that if they could prove Al-Qaeda operatives profited on the stock market then they could prove the terror organization was behind the attacks.

And all the evidence pointed to heavy insider trading around 9/11.

Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Martino, said: “I think that there are terrorist states and organizations behind speculation on the international markets.” German central bank president, Ernst Welteke, said his researchers had found “almost irrefutable proof of insider trading.”

Even CNN reported that regulators were seeing “ever-clearer signs” that someone “manipulated financial markets ahead of the terror attack in the hope of profiting from it.”

Mr. Howard says that a serious study of who profited on the stock market from 9/11 would “tear the heart out of the oligarchy in America.”

“There is only one organization that spans the entire world, and let me tell you now, it isn’t and it never was al-Qaeda.”

It’s the CIA.

“There could never be a real investigation. The entire shadow government, as you call them now, are implicated.”

The 79-year-old, spending his final weeks at home, said he doesn’t expect to be taken into custody following his confession because “then they’d have to go after everyone else. They will just use the media to attack me. They are all on the payroll to suppress everything around 9/11.”

Baxter Dmitry is a writer at Your News Wire. He covers politics, business and entertainment. Speaking truth to power since he learned to talk, Baxter has travelled in over 80 countries and won arguments in every single one. Live without fear. – Email: baxter@yournewswire.com – Follow: @baxter_dmitry

9/11 revisited - This video examines evidence of the impossibility of the airborne cell phone calls from the nine passengers that were indicated on the Caller-ID's of the recipients as recorded in FBI reports. The technology for such calls did not exist in 2001 (refer to video description). If the cell phone calls could not have been made from the planes in the air, where were they made from? If those cell phone calls were not made in the air, the "19-Hijacker Conspiracy Theory" is seriously damaged.

This video is a portion of the excellent 5-hour 9/11 investigative film "September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor" by Massimo Mazzucco. For the complete 5-hour film (separated into 3 parts) click the links at the bottom.

Prior to 2004 cell phone calls from fast high flying aircraft were impossible because of the technology then in use.

But in 2004 Qualcomm Incorporated announced in a July 15, 2004 press release:"American Airlines and Qualcomm Complete Test Flight to Evaluate In-Cabin Mobile Phone Use" [ https://www.qualcomm.com/news/release... ]:"Qualcomm Incorporated...and American Airlines today successfully demonstrated in-cabin voice communication using commercially available CDMA mobile phones on a commercial American Airlines aircraft...The proof-of-concept demonstration flight originated out of the Dallas/Fort Worth International airport. During the approximate two-hour flight, passengers were able to place and receive phone calls and text messages on their mobile phones....'We are pleased to have worked so closely with American Airlines to complete this proof-of-concept demonstration for the in-flight use of 3G CDNA technology,' said Dr. Irwin Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm..."

On 9/11, people receiving cell calls allegedly from the hijacked aircraft reported the unusual clarity of the calls - as if they were calling from the next room. However, cell phone calls in the Qualcomm demonstration, "...was about the same as a regular cell call on the ground, other than the loud background noise on the MD-80 jet." [ http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/w... ]

This lack of background noise could make one wonder if those cell calls were really being placed from the inside of a hijacked jetliner in flight.

There is evidence that Flight 77 and Flight 11 were not even scheduled to fly on 9/11.....not that they were scheduled and subsequently canceled - but that a Flight 77 and a Flight 11 were never scheduled in the first place - passengers aren't booked on flights which do not exist.

Prior to sometime in 2004 the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) website for September 11, 2001 showed no record of a Flight 77 or a Flight 11[ Evidence that Flights AA 11 and AA 77 Did Not Exist on September 11, 2001 - http://www.serendipity.li/wot/aa_flts... ]. Then, in 2004, Flight 11 and Flight 77 were "added" to the BTS data for 9/11/2001 but they show no departure time nor an aircraft tail number - this link includes a screen capture of the "new" Flight 11 data: http://letsrollforums.com//happened-p...

Back in 2003 when the evidence to invade Iraq was being pushed to get public support it seemed more than a bit shady so I began looking into questions then being aired about the 9/11 attacks - and this 9/11 flight scheduling anomaly came to light. When I went to the Bureau of Transportation website, I found the same information as shown in the links below: